They were inconveniently reasonable, these women.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe most serious injury is done in childhood. Our cruel waste of the nerve force of children is only more pathetic than it is absurd. The mere business of growing up... which should be a process unconscious or full of joy and rich accumulation, is made by our ignorant mishandling a confusing, irritating, exhausting process, often leaving permanent injuries to the machine, as well as waste of power.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanI always liked that Arab saying, 'First tie your camel and then trust in the Lord,
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThere is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
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But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanTag: writing psychology short-story
Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?
Charlotte Perkins GilmanTag: feminism charlotte-perkins-gilman if-i-were-a-man
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I want to marry you, Malda - because I love you - because you are young and strong and beautiful - because you are wild and sweet and - fragrant, and - elusive, like the wild flowers you love. Because you are so truly an artist in your special way, seeing beauty and giving it to others. I love you because of all of this, because you are rational and highminded and capable of friendship - and in spite of your cooking!”
“But - how do you want to live?”
“As we did here - at first,” he said. “There was peace, exquisite silence. There was beauty - nothing but beauty. There were the clean wood odors and flowers and fragrances and sweet wild wind. And there was you - your fair self, always delicately dressed, with white firm fingers sure of touch in delicate true work. I loved you then.
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Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanTag: feminism
Have you no respect for the past? For what was thought and believed by your foremothers?”
“Why, no,” she said. “Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them—and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.
I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.
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